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Isaiah 5:9

WEB

9In my ears, the LORD of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

KJV

9In mine ears[+] said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

BSB

9I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

FBV

9I heard the Lord Almighty declare: You can be sure that many houses are destined to become ruins, and beautiful mansions destined to become uninhabited.

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The Sacrifice of Christ in the Season of Christmas - Desiring God

Extra References

Matthew 23:38

38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.


Isaiah 22:14

14The LORD [+] of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.


Amos 3:7

7Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.


Amos 5:11

11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.


2 Chronicles 36:21

21to fulfill the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.


Amos 6:11

11For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.


Matthew 22:7

7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.


Isaiah 6:11-12

11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

12and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.


Isaiah 5:6

6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”


Isaiah 27:10

10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.